EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA | March 2017

The Forty-fourth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)

Phill Niblock, curator

March 2017

Sergey Komarov and Alexey Grachev (Russia)
Friday 3

Subjectivization of Sound, a sound performance that gradually transforms into an interactive installation – is based on interaction with space and viewers; by contrasting and matching two principles of the synthesis of electronic sound, analog and digital, each time the audio artists create a new sound that includes the sense of space, people and everything around them. the chief instruments of Grachev are the development environment Max/MSP and the platform Arduino for communication with space, and the analog modular synthesizer of Komarov; the mobility and variability of the performance are of great significance: any available equipment which happens to be on the site can be used; An Audio Performance Project by CYLAND Media Art Lab

Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea (New York)
Sunday 5

Endgame of the Anthropocene is Talibam!’s (Matt Mottel – synthesizers and

Kevin Shea- drums, electronics) first cinematic performance of through-composed ecogothic geosonics; it is the soundtrack to 2048’s despotic nationalism andcrumbling international infrastructure, underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering of Antarctica, the last pristine landscape on Earth; it is a dystopian sonic pronouncement of failed socio-environmental memes, and features Talibam!’s emergence into hyperkinetic rhythm-based instrumental/electronic music; this music will be released on ESP-DISK in the second half of 2017

Known for performance with live electronics // a rare presentation of mundane field recordings gathered in quadraphonic arrangements using extended recording techniques and various self-made transducers which will be on display

METROSCAN: A live audiovisual concert by Jurgutis (live electronics) and Nevcesauskas (live video) which reflects electronics, glitch, beats, noise, realtime generated computer graphics, visuals, various nowadays data streams, post-urban and post-internet aesthetics; the title of the work has derived from Metro, Metropolis, Metronome, Metrics and similar meanings and inspirations, these many-sided concepts are digitally objectified and originally developed in this project; the project is based on a purely digital aesthetics where specially live generating visual structures and diligent images interflow and interact with sophisticated electronic music – endless layers and textures of purely digital sound balanced on the edge of audibility, peculiar and diverse rhythms and pulsations

Erstwhile Records programs a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from 2013-2016, including work from Toshiya Tsunoda, Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto, Graham Lambkin, Takahiro Kawaguchi/Utah Kawasaki, Hong Chulki/Ryu Hankil, Michael Pisaro, Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet, Keith Rowe and more. Also Gabi Losoncy (Graham Lambkin-Community) and Devin DiSanto (Michael Pisaro-Anabasis) will be performing live simultaneously with the mentioned works after guidance from the initial composers beforehand.

“Wow, can’t believe that’s what you think of me…” An evening of virtual reality and performance celebrating tiny, trivial thoughts and creativity, and incomplete information; punctuating the night will be videos using my “tattooing” technique, which superimposes animation on to live action

Across the river to the west, another land, another home; New Movies of children, storms, industry, wastelands, looming New York, dancing in the street; with sound tracks by composers such as Marc Ribot and Cenk Ergun, or with improvised noises

Contact & About

Phill Niblock (b. 1933, USA) is an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he has served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honoured with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award.